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Author Pugh, Tison, author.

Title Precious perversions : humor, homosexuality, and the Southern literary canon / Tison Pugh.

Publication Info. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]

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Description 218 pages ; 24 cm.
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Series Southern literary studies
Southern literary studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index.
Contents Introduction: Precious perversions -- Camp sadomasochism in Tennessee Williams's plays -- Laughing with Truman Capote: insult, camp, and gothic excess -- Florence King's queer conservatism and the gender politics of Southern humor -- Rita Mae Brown's queer feminism and the gender politics of Southern humor -- Dorothy Allison's bravado and the comic limits of trauma -- David Sedaris's humor of the postsouthern South: place, race, and queer desire -- Conclusion: Precious perversions and the Southern literary canon.
Subject American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
Humor in literature.
Homosexuality in literature.
Southern States -- In literature.
American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
Homosexuality in literature. (OCoLC)fst00959825
Humor in literature. (OCoLC)fst00963735
Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
ISBN 9780807162699 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807162698 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807162712 (epub)
9780807162729 (mobi)
9780807162705 (pdf)

 
    
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